CDC recommends limiting duration of opioid therapy for acute pain
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Limiting the Duration of Opioid Prescriptions: Balancing Excessive Prescribing and the Effective Treatment of Pain.
Prescription opioidmisuse is amajor public health issue in the United States. Since the late 1990s, sales of prescription opioids have risen 4-fold, and the rates of admissions for substance use treatment and of death from opioid overdose have grown proportionately.1 In response, trainingprogramsabout theappropriateprescribing of opioid therapy have been developed, prescription monitoring progr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pharmacy Today
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1042-0991
DOI: 10.1016/j.ptdy.2016.08.027